Gallery: Do you remember? -- Dec. 14, 2010

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People shop in the 900 block of 3rd Avenue, which is decorated for Christmas. The photo is most likely from the 1930s. The store signs are the F.W. Woolworth Co. and the Princess Shop Ladies Wearing Apparel.

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Unknown image from our archives. The box says the negative is from June 1955, although the photo isn't necessarily from that date.

Herald-Dispatch archive photo -

Unknown image from our archives. The box says the negative is from June 1955, although the photo isn't necessarily from that date.

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Unknown image from our archives. The box says the negative is from June 1955, although the photo isn't necessarily from that date.

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On Nov. 26, 1952, a ward building at Huntington State Hospital, now Mildred Mitchell-Bateman Hospital, caught fire, killing 17 people.

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Unknown image from our archives. The box says the negative is from June 1955, although the photo isn't necessarily from that date.

Herald-Dispatch archive photo -

Unknown image from our archives. The box says the negative is from June 1955, although the photo isn't necessarily from that date.

Herald-Dispatch archive photo -

Unknown image from our archives. The box says the negative is from June 1955, although the photo isn't necessarily from that date.

Herald-Dispatch archive photo -

Unknown image from our archives. The box says the negative is from June 1955, although the photo isn't necessarily from that date.

Herald-Dispatch archive photo -

Unknown image from our archives. The box says the negative is from June 1955, although the photo isn't necessarily from that date.

Herald-Dispatch archive photo -

Unknown image from our archives. The box says the negative is from June 1955, although the photo isn't necessarily from that date.

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This photo was published Aug. 3, 1942, according to Nora Burns. It was a parade of the West Virginia Fire Association in Huntington. The two boys at left are Carl Burns (Nora's husband) and Eugene Jenkins. The photo was taken at the intersection of 4th Avenue and 8th Street. The building on the corner is the Dickinson Furniture building. The fire truck is a 1940 model American LaFrance, according to Robert S. Miller, deputy chief of the Ohio River Road Volunteer Fire Department. Miller served on the Huntington Fire Department.

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Men take their draft physicals in the World War II era at Vanity Fair, 629 4th Ave. Vanity Fair, built in 1915, was once home to the Marshall College basketball team, until the Veterans Memorial Field House opened in 1950. In 1991, the building was renovated into a housing complex for single people who have little or no income by the Cabell-Huntington Coalition for the Homeless.

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Fourth Avenue. The tall building on the left is the West Virginia Building. The box says the negative is from June 1955, although the photo isn't necessarily from that date.

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Exterior shot of the former Huntington East High School in the 2800 block of 5th Avenue. The photo is taken from what is now the parking lot of the St. Mary's Center for Education (formerly Big Bear).

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The Robert C. Byrd Locks and Dam in Gallipolis Ferry, W.Va. According to the US Army Corps of Engineers site, the project began in August 1937 and was completed in October 1937. The box says the negative is from June 1955, although the photo isn't necessarily from that date.

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Unknown image from our archives. The box says the negative is from June 1955, although the photo isn't necessarily from that date.

Herald-Dispatch archive photo -

Unknown image from our archives. The box says the negative is from June 1955, although the photo isn't necessarily from that date.

Herald-Dispatch archive photo -

Unknown image from our archives. The box says the negative is from June 1955, although the photo isn't necessarily from that date.

Herald-Dispatch archive photo -

Unknown image from our archives. The box says the negative is from June 1955, although the photo isn't necessarily from that date.

Herald-Dispatch archive photo -

Unknown image from our archives. The box says the negative is from June 1955, although the photo isn't necessarily from that date.

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Unknown image from our archives. The box says the negative is from June 1955, although the photo isn't necessarily from that date.

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The Home Furniture store was located at 1025 3rd Ave. To the right of Home Furniture is the Rialto Theater. Thanks to Richard Bartram Jr. for the information.

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The Hotel Frederick, 4th Avenue. The box says the negative is from June 1955, although the photo isn't necessarily from that date.

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Unknown image from our archives. The box says the negative is from June 1955, although the photo isn't necessarily from that date.

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Unknown image from our archives. The box says the negative is from June 1955, although the photo isn't necessarily from that date.

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Republican candidate for president Wendell Willkie speaks in downtown Huntington on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 1940. The building in the background is the U.S. Post Office and Federal Building at 9th Street and 5th Avenue, now known as the Sidney L. Cristie Federal Building.

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Unknown image from our archives. The box says the negative is from June 1955, although the photo isn't necessarily from that date.

Herald-Dispatch archive photo -

Unknown image from our archives. The box says the negative is from June 1955, although the photo isn't necessarily from that date.

Herald-Dispatch archive photo -

Unknown image from our archives. The box says the negative is from June 1955, although the photo isn't necessarily from that date.

Herald-Dispatch archive photo -

Unknown image from our archives. The box says the negative is from June 1955, although the photo isn't necessarily from that date.

Herald-Dispatch archive photo -

Unknown image from our archives. The box says the negative is from June 1955, although the photo isn't necessarily from that date.

Herald-Dispatch archive photo -

Unknown image from our archives. The box says the negative is from June 1955, although the photo isn't necessarily from that date.

Herald-Dispatch archive photo -

Unknown image from our archives. The box says the negative is from June 1955, although the photo isn't necessarily from that date.

Herald-Dispatch archive photo -

Unknown image from our archives. The box says the negative is from June 1955, although the photo isn't necessarily from that date.

Herald-Dispatch archive photo -

Unknown image from our archives. The box says the negative is from June 1955, although the photo isn't necessarily from that date.

Herald-Dispatch archive photo -

Unknown image from our archives. The box says the negative is from June 1955, although the photo isn't necessarily from that date.

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Republican candidate for president Wendell Willkie speaks in downtown Huntington on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 1940. The building in the background is the U.S. Post Office and Federal Building at 9th Street and 5th Avenue, now known as the Sidney L. Cristie Federal Building. The photo ran in the Thursday, Oc. 31, 1940, New York Times, along with a story about Willkie's speech in Baltimore. The caption reads "A Willkie Audience That Reached to the Rooftops: There was no standing room in Public Square as the Republican candidate spoke in Huntington, W.Va., on Tuesday."